A DAY'S TRAGEDIES IN THE STATES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

A DAY'S TRAGEDIES IN THE STATES.

The following is a report of the various tragedies enacted ou Monday September 23 rd in the United States •—William Hopkins, of Belletont, Pennsylvania, a carpenter, crazed by jealousy and a full quart of whisky, which he had consumed, killed his young wife by a shot through the head and then slew his mother-in law. He afterwards ended his miserable existence by blowing out what brain 3 he possessed. At Negro Cake Walk at Calpeper, Virginia, a coloured beau fired by the charms of his sable hostess kissed her surreptitiously behind the door. Her husband, .Tames Fitxgerald, drew his gun and sent a bullet through his wife's heart. He tried to exterminate the man but he was prevented, George Doelle, a night watchman ut an ironworks in Montagne, Michigan, attempted to chop off the head of his step-daughter who interfered to prevent the execution of a similar design on his wife. A constable who endeavoured to take the maniac into custody was stabbed in the jugular vein and killed. During the night Doelle hanged himself in the cell at the police-station. Charles Stilite became incensed against his employer, Solomon Felch, at Florence, Wisconsin, and killed him by a pistol shot. Amos Hardnian, shot Robert Shaw, at Lisbon, Ohio, in a quarrel. At Harlan, Kentucky, eight prisoners made their way out of gaol and escaped. The guard who endeavoured to prevent their exodus was killed. Thomas Winning, a youag Englishman, was fired on from the bush near Gervais Oregon and seriously wonded. A man of the name of Kukendall became insane, and killed his wife at Rohville, Kansas. The deputy sheriff captured him by syringiug a pi"t of chloroform through the window over thedangerous lunatic, whose capture was thus safely accomplished. George Cloyd, a young merchant of Greensburg, Kentucky, blew out his brains during an attack of delirium tremenx. Frank Hodlywood, of New Bedford, is the youngest murderer of the list. The age of the ferocious criminal is 10 years. While playing with his sister, a few years older than himself, he became incensed and stabbed her in the thigh, causing a wound from which she bled to death. Frank attempted to drown himself while being conveyed to the police court.